Squid seems to "HANG UP"!

Hi there!

My squid server seems not to respond to requests after sometime of excellent
operation.

I have the latest linux server (slackware 4.0) running squids latest
(version 2.2.STABLE4 ). There are about 100 pcs using this with an IE 4.0
browser. The server runs on an Intel Pentium Pro 200 with cache size of
about 3 GB. It has two NICs .. one is connected to the router (202.8.254.3)
while the other to our LAN (172.16.12.254) where the PCs are connected. My
problem is after sometime, the squid server seems not to respond anymore (as
if it hanged) ... and it polls ... and after sometime .. a message pops up
saying "A connection with the server could not be established". This
normally happens if the proxy server is down.

But when one of my machines (which is also connected to the router thus
connected to the other NIC of my proxy - 202.8.254.3) use the proxy (using
the other NICs ip .. say 202.8.254.3:8085) it is allowed to access the
proxy.

I have observed that after I have requested to users to stop using the
internet for a while .... in a few minutes ... the proxy accepts connections
again from the 172.16.12.254:8085 ....

To summarize ... I run a Squid server with about 100 clients (using MS IE
4.0). Now
and then when it's under heavy load it stops responding to new
connections (the clients just time out). However this seems to only
affect the one NIC with all the clients on it.

I think somewhere ... I am running out of some resources which I still don't
know what.

I would appreciate it very much if u can help me on this. .

Thanks ... and more power!

Systems Administrator
DBIT Systems, Inc., Philippines
sarah_rodriguez@consultant.com
Received on Wed Sep 15 1999 - 04:10:52 MDT